The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 19, No. 554, June 30, 1832 by Various
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_Peter's_ bell, with a clock and dial: he built also the tower and good
part of the church at Honiton (which before was only a chapel, now the chancel). In the windows of the tower are the arms of his parents, now lost; but his paternal arms are on the pillars of the chancel.[1] The heraldic embellishments of the chimney-piece are as follow:-- "The arms of Courtenay impaled by those of the see of Exeter are in the centre compartment. In that on the left hand is the former coat single, supported by two swans collared and chained. Motto _Arma Petri Exon epi_. And on the right hand it impales _Hungerford_, supported by two boars with the Courtenay label round their necks. Motto _Arma Patris et Matris_. "Above the centre compartment is the mitre, with the arms of the see, and a label inscribed _Colompne ecclesie veritatis p'conie_;[2] and here the T is thrice repeated. "The moulding of the arch is charged with the portcullis and foliage alternately; and on the point are the royal arms in a garter, and supported by two greyhounds. "The T with the bell appendant occurs on the sides of the centre coat; also the T single and labels, and over the top of the chimney the T and P C for _Peter Courtenay_. "The three Sickles and the Sheaf in the angles of the three compartments are the badges of the barons of Hungerford." Further explanation is necessary, as well as interesting for its connexion with two popular origins--St. Antony's fire, and St. Antony, or "Tantony's |
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